2. Correct closure means either that (a) the incident was closed
as non-crime related and contained sufficient information to dispel
any inference of criminality; or (b) the incident indicated a crime
had occurred and a crime record was traced

3. However, it should also be noted that bringing the two
sources together in this way highlights that the
SCJS
and police recorded crime cover different populations and different
timescales, and the
SCJS
does not cover the entire range of crimes and offences that the
police are faced with.

4. Subsuming refers to the practice of counting multiple crimes
as one crime, with less serious crimes subsumed within more serious
crimes. For more information, please refer to Section D of the
Scottish
Crime Recording Standard (SCRS).

5. Incidents consist of all reports to the police, whether a
crime is recorded or not.

6. Although the crime of Lewd and libidinous practices does not
identify the age of the victim by its name, this crime code is
specific to victims of historic crimes that were under 16 years of
age. We have therefore included these crimes in our
calculations.

7. Incidents consist of all reports to the police, whether a
crime is recorded or not.

8. Incidents consist of all reports to the police, whether a
crime is recorded or not.

9. Subsuming refers to the practice of counting multiple crimes
as one crime, with less serious crimes subsumed within more serious
crimes. For more information, please refer to Section D of the
Scottish
Crime Recording Standard (SCRS).

10. Incidents consist of all reports to the police, whether a
crime is recorded or not.

12. There have been some changes to the
SCJS
since 2008-09, for example, the
SCJS
sample changed to an unclustered design in 2012-13, however this is
not thought to have introduced any bias to the results.

13. As demonstrated, for example, by the confidence interval
around the estimated number of
SCJS
crimes in 2006, compared to later surveys.

14. Figures for the confidence interval rounded to nearest
thousand.

15. Figures for the confidence interval rounded to nearest
thousand.

16. Figures for the confidence interval rounded to nearest
thousand.

17. Subject to the back-dated change whereby Offences related to
serious organised crime has been moved from Group 1 to Group 5. See
'
Data Considerations' section.

19. Subsuming refers to the practice of counting multiple crimes
as one crime, with less serious crimes subsumed within more serious
crimes. For more information, please refer to Section D of the
Scottish
Crime Recording Standard (SCRS).